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J. L. & D. H. GOLES. SINKER FOR FISHING LINES.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN L. OOLES AND DAVID H. GOLES, OF BROOKLYN, ASSIGNORS TO THE EMPIRESTATE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF NEXV YORK, N. Y.

SINKJER FOR FISHING-LINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent No. 402,231, dated. April30, 1889. Application filed October 25, 1888. Serial No- 289,l11, (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that We, JOHN L. COLES and DAVID H. OOLEs, both citizens ofthe United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings andState of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Sinkcrsfor Fishing-Tackle, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a sinker for fishing-tackle, said sinker beingso arranged that it can be made lighter or heavier without being removedfrom the line, as set forth in the following specification and claims,and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 shows asection of a sinker with disks or sections, the section being takenalong the line 00 :0, Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a view of a sinker with disks ona line. Fig. 3 is asection of a sinker without disks. Fig. 4. is asection of a disk. Fig. 5 isaplan view of a disk.

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts.

The sinker is shown as consisting of two parts, A B, joined byscrew-threads. The line 0 passes through the sinker. The sinker has atits lower enda cavity, D, and scallops or recesses D, extending radiallyin the outer edge of the wall of the cavity, into which the line C cansink when the sinker scrapes over the bottom, thus saving the line fromchafing on the bottom.

When it is desired to increasthe-weight of the sinker, the parts A B arescrewed apart and one or more disks or sections, E, are placed betweentheparts A B, and said sections E and partsA B being then screwedtogether will form a sinker of increased weight. As the sections E haveslots F, said sections can he slipped on or off the line 0 withoutdismounting the parts A B, or either of them, from the line. It is onlynecessary to make one part, A or B, movable or slidable along the lineC, so that when the parts A Bare disconnected the movable part of thesinker can be separated sufficiently from the other part by slidingalong the line C to enable the disks or sections E to be placed betweenthe parts A B and to be screwed in place.

To diminish the weight of the sinker, the sinker part B can be unscrewedfrom the disk E, to which it is connected, after which one or more diskscan be unscrewed and slipped off the line. The part B being thenreplaced or screwed in place, a sinker of diminished weight is obtained.As the part B and disks E are readily rotatable on the line, said part Band disks F can be readily screwed into place and unscrewed withouttwisting the line.

The disks E and sinker parts A B are hollow or perforated to allow theline C to readily pass through said disks and sinker parts.

WVhat we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A fishing-line sinker consisting of the end parts, A and B, eachhaving a central orifice extending entirely through it for thelengthwise passage of the line and interposed removable and replaceablesections E, each having a radial slot, F, to receive the line,substantially as described.

2. A fishing-line sinker consisting of the two parts A and B, eachhaving a screw-thread and a central orifice extending entirely throughit for the lengthwise passage of the line, and the gether and to thescrew-threaded parts of the sinker, and each section having a radialslot, F, to receive the line, substantially as described.

3. A fishing-line sinker containing at one provided with scallops orrecesses D, substantially as described. In testimony whereof we havehereunto set our hands and seals in the presence of twov interposedsections E, screw-threaded tov end a cavity having the outer edge of itswall Correction in Letters Patent No. 402,231.

It is hereby certified that the assignee, The Empire State ManufacturingCompany, in Letters Patent No. 402,231, granted April 30, 1889, upon theapplication of Johr L. Ooles and David H. Goles, of Brooklyn, New York,for an improvement in Sinker: for Fishing-Lines, should have beendescribed and specified as The Empire Stat Manufacturing Company, acorporation organized under the laws of the State of Net Jersey, anddoing business at Jersey City, N. J and New York, N. Y.,- and that thesai1 Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that thesame may-conforn to the record of the case in the Patent Office.

Signed, conntersigned, and sealed this 21st day of May, A. D. 1889.

GEO. CHANDLER,

First Assistant Seeretaryof the Interim [SEA -1 O ountersigned 0. E.MITCHELL,

Commissioner of Patents.

